/lit/ - Literature

"Shit's on fire, yo" edition

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For General Writing
>The Rhetoric of Fiction, Booth
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Burroway
>Steering the Craft, Le Guin
>The Anatomy of Story, Truby
>How Fiction Works, Wood

For advertising
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=540LzCxwMXk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bQygKqJVFXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQygKqJVFXg

YouTube Playlists for Writing
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCv6n1whoI23GmdBZienRW0Q0nFCU_ay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6HOdHEeosc

Technical Aspects of Writing
>Garner's Modern English Usage, Garner
>What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, Ginna
>Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Tufte

Books Analyzing Literature
>Poetics, Aristotle
>Hero With a Thousand Faces, Campbell
>The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives, Egri
>The Weekend Novelist, Ray

Traditional Publishing
>don’t
>you make 10-15% profit max
>self publishing you make 70%+
>they’ll still require you to do all the leg work of a self published author anyways

Self Publishing Options
>https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
>https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/writinglife

Self Publishing How-To
>https://selfpublishingwithdale.com/

Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Borges
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Mason

Anime Writing (^･o･^)
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4on26mKakgs
>https://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Anime-Story
Anime is homosexual

Pastebin
>https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ

>>19386498
>show what else surrounds the character to associate those things with him
>describe the five senses, not all the time but share them
>use similes, adjectives, etc
If you're having trouble, try observing or remembering how things behave to see what it makes you think of, then try to list out more and choose the description that works. There's a lot going on in the background that we ignore all the time, so just look around and observe like you've never seen it before.

>>19234257
Same. When I consider antagonists, I take someone who is infamous and see if I can read their writings or listen to them speak on a more personal level. I know Ray Kurzweil gets a bad reputation as being an insane transhumanist. I still think he kind of is one, but I read one of his books. It helped me understand Kurzweil and how to humanize motivations of an antagonist that readers might find despicable or alien.

On another note, just read first 4 chapters of "Story Genius" in the /wg/ links. I've heard some of this advice already. For anyone floundering on how to create a story, I do recommend it. It will help you understand effective questions and answers to put together a story that will compel both you and your readers.

>>19117540
Thanks, I'll note these as common issues in my writing for the next draft. I was more interested in what you thought about the story. As far as the three old men, they helped create the Gatherer/Demiurge to manage the world, which it could only do if it killed most people, which they were on board with. Waldvogel seems nonchalant because he anticipated what was going to happen, the other two actually did panic that'd they'd never see their dream come true, but perhaps it didn't come off that way. Glad you liked my first pass of Phoebe having her ego destroyed, it's one of the most important disasters in the story.

>>19029470
Maybe you can try an epistolary style story where part of it is from the main character's POV, and others are from a written perspective. That way you can have the feeling that you are discovering relics from the past with your protagonist, but you also get to experience the past like its really happening, rather than have a character just tell you that it happened. A good epistle can have all the feeling that a writer could describe a scene with. I don't have many examples of epistolary stories to recommend, but I think it could work for you.